i really like the word queer because i have never heard faggot or dyke spoken offline or outside of american television queer is the insult where i live you know how people might say the gays in a fearmongering or disgusted way like that the queers so having queer be our word is wonderful and it cant feel bitter to me when someone uses it as a pejorative which i should add is very rare i feel a little streak of rebellion using it to describe myself its great